Unions And Collective Bargaining Agreements in Turkey
The Turkish Constitution allows employees and employers to establish and join a trade union. Trade unions may be established to operate in one of the 20 industries (i.e. hunting, ishing, agriculture and forestry, food industry, mines and quarry, petrol-chemicalsrubber-plastic and pharmaceuticals, weaving-ready wear-and leather, paper and forestry, communication, press-publication and journalism, banking-inance and insurance, commerce-oiceeducation and ine arts, cement-soil and glass, metal, construction, energy, logistics, ship building and maritime logistics, storage and warehousing, health and social security and general works (municipality services)).
Any person considered as an employee who is over the age of 15 may become a member of a trade union or more than a trade union operating in the same industry. The trade unions may enter into collective bargaining agreements in order to arrange employees’ and employers’ economic and social relationships at work.